22 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



ing ycar.^ From other parts of Scotland, more especially 

 Orkne}', over a score of examples have at one time or 

 another been reported. Day figures one in his " British 

 Fishes " which was captured at Montrose in April 1872 ; and 

 in Sim's ** Vertebrate Fauna of Dee" there is a record of one 

 caught at Buckie in y\pril 1878, and of another cast upon 

 the beach at Mennie, Aberdeenshire, in August 1888. More 

 recently specimens have been recorded in this Magazine ^ from 

 Shetland (June i 896), Orkney (April i 896), and Banff (March 

 1905). 



According to Smitt ("Scandinavian Fishes,"i i 893), " the 

 true home of the Deal-fish is unquestionably in the deeper, 

 if not the deepest, parts of the North Atlantic." It belongs, 

 he explains, to the abyssal depths between Iceland and the 

 North of Norway, and has oftenest been met with north of 

 the polar circle, but also on several occasions off the South of 

 Norway. 



THE FALSE-SCORPIONS OF SCOTLAND. 



By Robert Godfrey, M.A. 

 {Continued fro7n p. 161, I^o. 6'], July 1908.) 



Chernes nodosus (Schrank) 1803. 



As a Scottish species little is yet known about this deeply in- 

 teresting form. The first recorded Scottish specimen was obtained 

 by Mr. J. F. Jeffrey, August 27, 1895, ^^ ^^e herbarium of the 

 Edinburgh Botanic Gardens ; two others w^ere found by my friend 

 Mr. Alex. Baxter, in August 1900, attached to the leg of a fly in 

 a chemist's shop in N.-W. Circus Place, Edinburgh. One of these 

 latter was killed along with the fly, but the other was taken alive to 

 Mr. Wm. Evans, to whom the previous specimen from the herbarium 

 had also been forwarded. 



The ordinary habitat of CIi. 7iodosus^ as Mr. Wallis Kew has 

 pointed out to me, appears to be among refuse ; that is, in accumu- 

 lations of decaying vegetation, manure-heaps, frames, and hot-beds in 

 gardens. He refers to its occurrence in a manure-heap in the open 

 air at Lille, and draws my attention to its abundance in a melon- 

 frame near Hastings in 1898, where it w^as found by Mr. W. R. 

 Butterfield. 



^ Vol. iii. 2nd series, pp. 456-77. 

 2 "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1896, pp. 159, 160; and 1905, p. 184. 



